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My commitment is to ensure that our academic, administration and research partners are provided with a monthly, campus-wide view of our IT Services (ITS) project portfolio as outlined in our IT Executive Dashboard.
As we embark on the Digital Campus Roadmap this fiscal year, I want to ensure that all of our academic, administration and research partners throughout UCLA have full visibility to our portfolio.
Confluence Server has been updated and patched; the service is back online.
This is the final reminder about the changes coming to the look and feel of the Duo Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) prompt when logging in to services with UCLA Single Sign-On (SSO).
As part of the ongoing VMware Virtual Cloud Datacenter (VCDR) project, all VMs will be replicated over to VCDR starting on May 17.
UCLA utilizes Duo Security as our vendor for MFA integration, and the company has announced an updated version of the MFA prompt named “Universal Prompt.” To address a critical security vulnerability, UCLA needs to convert to Universal Prompt on Tuesday, May 24, 2022.
UCLA IT Services — Network Services will be performing maintenance to Campus Backbone core router on Sunday, April 24, 6:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Core router at Anderson site will be replaced with a new hardware. No network interruption is expected during the maintenance window as traffic will be routed to redundant paths.
We'd like to raise awareness about a serious vulnerability with Google Chrome and Chromium based browsers such as Microsoft Edge. Please see the details below. In short, all affected users need to update and restart the browser to resolve the vulnerability.
ITS would like to make you aware of a planned voice router replacement scheduled for Sunday, March 6, 2022, from 7 a.m. – 4 p.m. The voice router's current hardware and software within one of ITS' primary service locations must be replaced before it reaches End of Service (EoS)/End of Life (EoL), in order to continue to provide reliable voice services.
Wednesday afternoon, many employees received an email with the subject line “A new version of Burst report is available” along with an attached document. We can assure you that this was not a cyberattack but the result of a mistake during the testing of a new report distribution.
The Systems Programming team will be upgrading the Mainframe's Operating System from z/OS 2.3 to z/OS 2.4. Implementation is set for 02/06/2022 from 2:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
UCLA IT Services — Network Services will be performing maintenance to Campus Backbone border router on Sunday, February 6, 6:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. The Anderson border router will be replaced with a new hardware and the network traffic will be routed back from the redundant router at CSB1 to the primary router at Anderson. No network interruption is expected during the maintenance window as the network traffic will be using redundant paths.
ITS would like to make you aware of a planned voice router replacement scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 23 2022, from 7 a.m. – 4 p.m. The voice router's current hardware and software within one of ITS' primary service locations must be replaced before it reaches End of Service (EoS)/End of Life (EoL), in order to continue to provide reliable voice services. All voice traffic will be routed to the redundant voice router during the maintenance, so VoIP service should continue as usual.
UCLA IT Services — Network Services will be performing maintenance to Campus Backbone border router on Sunday, January 23, 0600-1400. The network traffic will be routed out of Anderson border router to the redundant border router at CSB1 location. This is a preparation for the hardware replacement of the Anderson border router that will take place the following Sunday. No network interruption is expected during the maintenance as the network traffic will be routed to redundant paths.
On Nov. 16, 2021, IT Services will update the Adobe Creative Cloud accounts for users supported by our Desktop Services team. Their Adobe Creative Cloud account will be updated to use UCLA’s campuswide license agreement.